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Plot:
Filmmaker Takashi Miike takes inspiration from Hideo Yamamoto's manga, Koroshiya 1, to tell this bloody and bleak tale about the Japanese yakuza. Blond-coiffed Kakihara's "mentor in crime" disappears,...( read more 
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MCT:November 9, 2008F*@#ed up. Funny. Entertaining. Bugs me even after repeated viewings. First encounter with fucked up films and personally hasn't been dethroned as most disturbing I've seen. Don't understand alongside Gozu, Dead or Alive and the like why it affects me more.
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MCT:August 26, 2008
It's a cinematic sin that I've just seen Miike's wonderfully gory and sadomasochistic masterpiece. I think four or five rewatches will make up for my neglect.
"Ichi the Killer" is intense and for that I highly recommend it. (Sissy art house fans stay away.) I knew I was in for an experience since the opening scene and being confused when it came to exposing interchanged names only made for a better Yakuza story. Tadanobu Asano is the coolest actor ever; "Ichi the Killer" is worth a watch for his performance alone. So watch it. -
MCT:October 25, 2007
Interesting movie, we get to see the roots of so many asian movies, and the dream part of it all was brilliant, I have to say I'll give it another go to see all of the details and things I've missed, but I did enjoy :)
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MCT:September 24, 2007Gotta re-watch this once there's a definitive/decent dvd...
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MCT:August 28, 2007Funaki: Kakihara! What the fuck do you think you are doing?
Kakihara: [referring to Suzuki] Just a little torture.
This movie is a big mess of gore, misogyny, and non entertaining shock value. Its also kind of boring after a while. For a movie that is trying to be so extreme with its violence, I really didn't care to much for what I was seeing.
The story has two main plots. The first revolves around the character Ichi. He is this big cry baby who is brain washed into killing Yakuza, while dressed in this terrible rubber costume. When he is not doing this, he is literally crying all the time because he has been brain washed into thinking that he saw a rape as a boy and did nothing about it when he was there. This is used as the motivation to get him to kill when he is needed.
The other plot involves Kakihara, the man pictured on the cover, with the slit cheeks. He is a misogynist, loving to give and receive pain, and happily delivers it after Ichi starts tearing shit up all over Japan.
Eventually the movie becomes a build up to the final confrontation between these two, leading to the strange and somewhat ambiguous ending.
Even though I was not entertained very much by this movie, there were some inventive sequences that didn't make this a waste of time, as well as a good performance by Tadanobu Asano as Kakihara.
Director Takashi Miike, who is the basic inspiration for the recent torture horror craze in America, certainly knows how to stage to bloody sequences, approaching squirm worthy levels.
Still, even with the number of needlessly violent messes of films that I've seen, this one just wasn't for me.
Kakihara: Damn... Nobody left to kill me. -
MCT:December 3, 2008This is a landmark gorefest, with some of the most inventive torture scenes in cinematic history. The plot is a little convoluted but I believe that's because when this transfered from manga to script, alot of characters and unnecessary segments were kept which could have been condensed.
Also I've been mislead by the box art for years now. Having just watched it, I now know that the character on the posters is not the infamous Ichi, but his masochistic equivalent Kakihara, who is a far more interesting, if less complex, character than Ichi.
Some of the CG doesn't fit right, especially the halved body or the first time Kakihara unhinges his whole jaw, and that's not acceptable when the semen used in the title sequence is real (and looks it). Miike could have re-shot the halving scene in a more traditional "Cube" way and it would have been just as good.
Kakihara should (if you are a stable human being) blow you away with his insane acts of self mutilation; they're truly impeccable and Kakihara is a villain of the highest order.
MSG TO YOU PEOPLE KNOW WHO YOU ARE: DO NOT WATCH A FUCKING DUB. These dubs redo everything INCLUDING screams and gasps and it just RUINS the movie (obviously the creators wanted viewers to not favor the dubs as they are done so shittily). Dubbed, you won't get the full experience; it's a complete star rating worse with the dubs.
"So Fucked Up" highlight: the jaw unhinged
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Sk8erGriffinposted 255 days ago -
hey someone but the wrong name in a pic the one with things is not Nao Omori is Tadanobu Asano please someone change the name and the pic of the actors.
posted 606 days ago -
Looks crazy and I can't wait to see it!
LOL the guy from the poster has a Black Dahlia smile...posted 613 days ago -
you must see it this movie is real good ths has to be one of my fav movie's ever
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